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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus?
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 20:10:15 GMT

Thomas Graichen (graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Ha Ha (alex@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN) wrote:
: : Ha Ha (alex@yahoo.com) wrote:
: : : Will FreeBSD work on a microchannel bus system?
: 
: : : TIA
: : : Alex Winske
: 
: : Okay... no it doesn't.
: 
: : Is there a free unix flavor that does?
: 
: i think some people in the linux corner are doing it - but don't ask
: me where to find it (was in the news some days ago - in
: comp.os.linux.system i think)

Why bother?  It's a proprietary bus offered only by IBM
and I think that even they have abandoned it.  It is usually
quite difficult even to find MCA cards these days.

Chris
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